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Personal Reflection
I have chosen to write about the Queen Indradevi inscription for a few reasons. The main
reason is that it is the oldest out of the three available texts, and I find ancient/older history more
fascinating than more relatively recent history. The inscription is also written in Sanskrit and a lot
of the content has references to the culture and mythology of India, which is also interesting to me
because that is where I was born. The classical style in which the poem was written is also
intriguing because it is not something that I have a lot of exposure to. That is to say, the type of
classical writing that comes from that region with its emphasis on certain themes that are not
present in Western classical writing. I hope to gain a better understanding of some of those
aforementioned themes by reading the text more closely, mainly the theme of purity and how that
is manifested via actions or objects in the poem.
Question
How is the theme of purity and devotion expressed or manifested either via certain rites or
actions in the eulogy attributed to Queen Indradevi?
Sreyas Venkataraman 2
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